The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.

Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death.

The mechanism of natural selection depends on the survival, not of the strongest, nor the most intelligent, but of the most adaptable.

To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us.

This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to.

The Number One Rule of Working Is: DO THE BEST WORK YOU CAN. Why do anything but your best? What's the point?

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind

I have described Swaraj as Ramarajya and Ramarajya is an impossibility unless we have thousands of Sitas.

You can't allow other people to define your purpose or your destiny.

I have no idea how to do what you're supposed to do. I do a little bit of humming.

A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.